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Re:A Nvidia Engineer Wrote a Vulkan Driver That Works on Old... by skykooler on Saturday June 20, 2020 @02:54PM (#23585924)
Nope, it's based on the first sound. (Hence "an hour" rather than "a hour").
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Re:A Nvidia Engineer Wrote a Vulkan Driver That Works on Old... by Mirioron on Saturday June 20, 2020 @03:35PM (#23586442)
This is also why it's "a university".
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Re:A Nvidia Engineer Wrote a Vulkan Driver That Works on Old... by abnercoimbre on Saturday June 20, 2020 @05:43PM (#23587578)
Wait, what? So the rule isn't that the pronunciation starts with a vowel sound? Instead it's a more murky thing about how easy it rolls off the tongue?
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Re:A Nvidia Engineer Wrote a Vulkan Driver That Works on Old... by SiNiquity on Saturday June 20, 2020 @06:03PM (#23587736)
University starts with the 'y' sound, hence "a university." On the other hand, "an unimpressive fact" uses "an" because "unimpressive" starts with the 'u' (vowel) sound.
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Re:A Nvidia Engineer Wrote a Vulkan Driver That Works on Old... by swimfar on Saturday June 20, 2020 @06:07PM (#23587772)
University has a kind of "y" sound, like the word "yes", which isn't considered a vowel sound.
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Re:A Nvidia Engineer Wrote a Vulkan Driver That Works on Old... by casta on Saturday June 20, 2020 @06:05PM (#23587755)
Doesn't "university" start with the "y" consonant sound?
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Re:A Nvidia Engineer Wrote a Vulkan Driver That Works on Old... by kevin_thibedeau on Saturday June 20, 2020 @03:05PM (#23586058)
Don't tell the knuckle draggers still pretending that "history" has a silent-H.
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Re:A Nvidia Engineer Wrote a Vulkan Driver That Works on Old... by adrianmonk on Saturday June 20, 2020 @08:57PM (#23588776)
That's an accent thing. In some places the "h" is silent, and in other places it's not.
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Re:A Nvidia Engineer Wrote a Vulkan Driver That Works on Old... by int_19h on Saturday June 20, 2020 @10:37PM (#23589290)
Is there any English dialect in which it's silent in "a history"?
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